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George Lucas

Lucas in 2009
Born George Walton Lucas, Jr.
May 14, 1944 (1944-05-14) (age 65)
Modesto, California,
United States
Occupation Film director/producer
Years active 1965—Present
Spouse(s) Marcia Lucas née Griffin (1969-1983)
Domestic partner(s) Mellody Hobson (2007-present)
.George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award-nominated American film producer, screenwriter, director and founder/chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd.^ George Lucas's middle name is Walton.
  • George Lucas vs. Steven Spielberg @ WWWF Ground Zero 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.grudge-match.com [Source type: General]

 ^ George Lucas: I appreciate your enthusiasm for Star Wars, but the current versions of the Star Wars films represent my permanent vision of what happens to Anakin and Luke Skywalker.

 ^ Only even to know; when George Lucas in person tells me not to give up and to proceed on that what I believe, trying to make the best possible film I can do, may it be so.

 .He is best known for being the creator of the epic science fiction franchise Star Wars and joint creator of the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones.^ The Star Wars adventures will never end.

 ^ I just want to thank you for creating the Star Wars movies.

 ^ George, you know you should make your own Star Wars theme park so if you pass away not being mean, but so that other people can feel and see the things youve created and the excitement.

 Today, Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful independent directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.0 billion as of 2009.[1]

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Early life and education

Lucas was born in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Lucas (née Bomberger) and George Lucas Sr. (1913–1991), who owned a stationery store.[2]
.Lucas' experiences growing up in the sleepy Central Valley town of Modesto and his early passion for cars and motor racing would eventually serve as inspiration for his Oscar-nominated low-budget phenomenon, American Graffiti.^ Brought low, Lucas quickly dries up.
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 ^ In fact, we have Triple Harrison Ford action going on, because not only did he play Han Solo, he was also in "American Graffiti", one of Lucas' earlier films.
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 .Long before Lucas became obsessed with film making, he wanted to be a race-car driver, and he spent most of his high school years racing on the underground circuit at fairgrounds and hanging out at garages.^ Are you really going to do Episode 7 - 9 because I dont know if what I read is true, but if it is why the year 2014 I will already be out of high school.

 ^ Only even to know; when George Lucas in person tells me not to give up and to proceed on that what I believe, trying to make the best possible film I can do, may it be so.

 ^ Your most obsessed fan from PA. Some kid who likes pie George Lucas: I love you too!

 .However, a near-fatal accident in his souped-up Autobianchi Bianchina on June 12, 1962, just days before his high school graduation, quickly changed his mind.^ This was the day when Star Wars not just changed your life, but also changed the way movies were made.

 ^ And if I find out that you're a couple of high school prats on a lark, I'm going to make sure that it's a long time before you fuck with someone else's site ever again.
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 Instead of racing, he attended community college and later got accepted into a junior college to study anthropology. While taking liberal arts courses, he developed a passion for cinematography and camera tricks.
During this time, an experimental filmmaker named Bruce Baillie tacked up a bedsheet in his backyard in 1960 to screen the work of underground, avant-garde 16 mm filmmakers like Jordan Belson, Stan Brakhage and Bruce Conner. For the next few years, Baillie's series, dubbed Canyon Cinema, toured local coffeehouses. .These events became a magnet for the teenage Lucas and his boyhood friend John Plummer.^ These events became a magnet for the teenage Lucas and his boyhood friend John Plummer.

 ^ Nevertheless, it took Lucas's friend John Milius (writer of Apocalypse Now, director of Big Wednesday) forever to persuade him to see Seven Samurai.
  • Film-makers on film: George Lucas - Telegraph 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: General]

 ^ George Lucas has signed off on Star Wars: A Musical Journey, a two-hour live musical event featuring John Williams' Oscar-winning score.

 .The 19-year-olds began slipping away to San Francisco to hang out in jazz clubs and find news of Canyon Cinema screenings in flyers at the City Lights bookstore.^ The 19-year-olds began slipping away to San Francisco to hang out in jazz clubs and find news of Canyon Cinema screenings in flyers at the City Lights bookstore.

 ^ Coppola felt burned out making "Finian's Rainbow" for Warners so both men set out to become independents in San Francisco.
  • In A Valley Not Far Far Away - SFGate 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC articles.sfgate.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Leave California : When Woody Allen ditched New York for the Old World, he made one of his best films in years, Match Point , in London.
  • Is George Lucas Repeating Himself? - TIME 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.time.com [Source type: General]

 .Already a promising photographer, Lucas became infatuated with these abstract films.^ Already a promising photographer, Lucas became infatuated with these abstract films.

 ^ George Lucas by Dana White.Traces the life of the man who became well-known for his Star Wars movies, from his childhood in California to his career in films.
  • How George Lucas Looks at Life - The Movie Magic of This Creative Director 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.johnshepler.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Lucas' second feature film, the low-budget American Graffiti (1973), became the most successful film of its time.
  • George Lucas to Receive Art Directors Guild's Cinematic Imagery Award, February 14 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.prweb.com [Source type: General]
"That's when he (George) really started exploring," Plummer recalls. ."We went to a theater on Union Street that shows art movies, we drove up to San Francisco State for a film festival, and there was an old beatnik coffeehouse in Cow Hollow with shorts that were really out there."^ There is this generation of old Star Wars fans out there, who saw the movies when they were kids or adolescents.
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 ^ Then he wakes up and realizes hes been suckered and lashes out a sidious, i thought that was awesome, but now tragically vader is too weak to strangle wrinkles and get his revenge.
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 ^ There's nothing good about these movies other than reminding me that there are even bigger dorks out there than the "HItchhikers" fans.
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 It was a season of awakening for Lucas, who had been an uninterested slacker in high school. .At an autocross track, Lucas met his first mentor in the film industry — famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler, a fellow aficionado of sleek racing machines.^ George Lucas: The official sound tracks to the Star Wars films are still in print.

 .Wexler was impressed by the way the shy teenager handled a camera, cradling it low on his hips to get better angles.^ What better way to tip our collective hat to the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul than to wish her a happy birthday?
  • Television Is ‘Goofy And Fun’ For ‘Star Wars’ Creator George Lucas | Topsongs 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.topsongs.ismywebsite.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ."George had a very good eye, and he thought visually," Wexler recalls.^ George, I been on your Star Wars ride in MGM studios in Orlando, Florida and I thought it was a good ride and you should make your own theme park.

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Lucas then transferred to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. USC was one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to motion picture film. .During the years at USC, George Lucas shared a dorm room with Randal Kleiser.^ It was announced that George Lucas and all of the Star Wars characters would be in the Men's Room, signing autographs.
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 ^ George Lucas: During the prequel trilogy, Sidious is sixty-something years old.

 ^ George Lucas: If you want to find out what the characters are thinking during the various Star Wars films, then you need to read the official novelizations of each film.

 Along with classmates such as Walter Murch, Hal Barwood and John Milius, they became a clique of film students known as the The Dirty Dozen. He also became very good friends with fellow acclaimed student filmmaker Steven Spielberg. .Lucas was deeply influenced by the Filmic Expression course taught at the school by filmmaker Lester Novros which concentrated on the non-narrative elements of Film Form like color, light, movement, space, and time.^ I don't like really, any film Lucas has ever directed.
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 ^ George Lucas: Well, the Jedi and Dark Jedi in Episode 7 will have double-bladed light sabers and some will even wield two light sabers at one time.

 .Another huge inspiration was the Yugoslav montagist (and dean of the USC Film Department) Slavko Vorkapich, a film theoritician comparable in historical importance to Sergei Eisenstein, who moved to Hollywood to make stunning montage sequences for studio features at MGM, RKO, and Paramount.^ Who likes to make psuedo race-"statements" through film..
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 ^ It's obviously just a setup so that the real talent can move in and kill these two, making hollywood safe for better sci-fi direction.
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 Vorkapich taught the autonomous nature of the cinematic art form, emphasizing the unique dynamic quality of movement and kinetic energy inherent in motion pictures.
.Lucas saw many inspiring movies in class, particularly the visual films coming out of the National Film Board of Canada like Arthur Lipsett's 21-87, the French-Canadian cameraman Jean-Claude Labrecque's cinéma vérité 60 Cycles, the work of Norman McLaren, and the documentaries of Claude Jutra.^ I don't like really, any film Lucas has ever directed.
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 ^ There is this generation of old Star Wars fans out there, who saw the movies when they were kids or adolescents.
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 ^ Even before ep.I came out, I was worride: the guys hasn't done a film in like 20 years.
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 .Lucas fell madly in love with pure cinema and quickly became prolific at making 16 mm nonstory noncharacter visual tone poems and cinema verite with such titles as Look at Life, Herbie, 1:42:08, The Emperor, Anyone Lived in a Pretty (how) Town, Filmmaker, and 6-18-67.^ How could he answer for his sins and live a normal life having once been DARTH VADER? He felt that death was most appropriate at that time.

 ^ George Lucas did great things, had great power, then fell from grace, became evil.
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 .He was passionate and interested in camerawork and editing, defining himself as a filmmaker as opposed to being a director, and he loved making abstract visual films that create emotions purely through cinema.^ Even though Indiana Jones 4 will be created on traditional film, it will be edited with the most advanced-digital-editing equipment.

 ^ I went from being a relative unknown film director to the most influential film maker in the history of cinema.

 ^ Does this mean that you use Macintosh Computers to edit and/or create the effects in your recent films?

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.After graduating with a bachelor of fine arts in film in 1967, he tried joining the United States Air Force as an officer, but he was immediately turned down because of his numerous speeding tickets.^ Therefore and because its so difficult to get work as a film maker, Im always trying to get at least as half that good as you are in storytelling.

 He was later drafted by the Army for military service in Vietnam, but he was exempt from the draft after medical tests showed he had diabetes, the disease that killed his paternal grandfather.
.In 1967, Lucas re-enrolled as a USC graduate student in film production.^ In 1967, Lucas re-enrolled as a USC graduate student.
  • George Lucas Profile and Biography 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.filmmakers.com [Source type: General]

 ^ George Lucas has apparently decided to make a gradual exit from the film business and instead is looking to focus on creating television and downloadable “on-demandâ€?
  • George Lucas discusses online content distribution with Steve Jobs : Macenstein 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC macenstein.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Coppola had taken Lucas under his wing when they met on the set of Finian's Rainbow , the only film in production when Lucas was awarded a scholarship at Warner Bros.

 .Working as a teaching instructor for a class of U.S. Navy students who were being taught documentary cinematography, Lucas directed the short film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which won first prize at the 1967-68 National Student Film Festival, and was later adapted into his first full-length feature film, THX 1138.^ I don't like really, any film Lucas has ever directed.
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 ^ Alfred Hitchcock , who could out direct Lucas thirty years after his death couldn't have done that.
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 ^ Every time I start with a project (short films) I study carefully your entire work on STAR WARS. From the screenplay till the photography till the finished film.

 .Lucas was awarded a student scholarship by Warner Brothers to observe and work on the making of a film of his choosing.^ Only even to know; when George Lucas in person tells me not to give up and to proceed on that what I believe, trying to make the best possible film I can do, may it be so.

 ^ George Lucas: I have no plans to make a film trilogy set prior to the events of The Phantom Menace.

 ^ George Lucas Knows His Moons from The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler If his films weren't enough to make me suspect George Lucas is a moonbat, his statements at Cannes did.
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 The film he chose was Finian's Rainbow (1968) which was being directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who at the time was revered among film school students of the time as a cinema graduate who had "made it" in Hollywood. .In 1969, George Lucas was one of the camera operators on the classic Rolling Stones concert film Gimme Shelter.^ George Lucas: I appreciate your enthusiasm for Star Wars, but the current versions of the Star Wars films represent my permanent vision of what happens to Anakin and Luke Skywalker.

 ^ George Lucas: Well, the Jedi and Dark Jedi in Episode 7 will have double-bladed light sabers and some will even wield two light sabers at one time.

 ^ Only even to know; when George Lucas in person tells me not to give up and to proceed on that what I believe, trying to make the best possible film I can do, may it be so.

Film career

.George Lucas is one of the most successful and celebrated filmmakers in cinema history, with a film career dominated by writing and production.^ George Lucas - your writing sucks.
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 ^ Lucas Hate Expressed from Mama Write's Sideblog Here's a length rant about George Lucas...
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 ^ George Lucas: I appreciate your enthusiasm for Star Wars, but the current versions of the Star Wars films represent my permanent vision of what happens to Anakin and Luke Skywalker.

 .Aside from the nine short films he made in the 1960s, he has also directed six major features to date.^ Simply because I directed it and that was the film that made all my dreams come true.

 .The early 1970s work as a writer-director that established him as a major figure in Hollywood consists of just three titles, made between 1971 and 1977 -- THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars -- and there was a 22-year hiatus between Star Wars Episode IV and his only other feature-film directing credits, the three Star Wars prequels.^ The first Star Wars film?
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 ^ "It's just not Star Wars anymore.
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 ^ Also, remember, he only directed one of those three, namely, Star Wars, and it is the weakest of the three.
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.Lucas' career path contrasts with that of his friend, collaborator and close contemporary Steven Spielberg, who has similarly worked extensively as a writer and producer but has also directed almost thirty major feature films over a similar time span.^ Alfred Hitchcock , who could out direct Lucas thirty years after his death couldn't have done that.
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 ^ Every time I start with a project (short films) I study carefully your entire work on STAR WARS. From the screenplay till the photography till the finished film.

 ^ You are one of the best film makers of all time.- MK George Lucas: Thanks for your warm compliments.

 However, thanks to his long association with Spielberg, Lucas has acted as a writer and executive producer on another of Hollywood's most successful film franchises, the Indiana Jones series. .In addition, his far-sighted decision to establish his own effects company to make the original Star Wars film has reaped enormous benefits; the award-winning Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) is acknowledged one of the world leaders in the field and has created groundbreaking special effects for many other box office hits.^ The first Star Wars film?
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 ^ Although making a short film is nothing compare making a STAR WARS film.

 ^ I just want to thank you for creating the Star Wars movies.
.Lucas co-founded the studio American Zoetrope with Coppola—whom he met during his internship at Warner Brothers—hoping to create a liberating environment for filmmakers to direct outside the perceived oppressive control of the Hollywood studio system.^ Dear Mr. Lucas, as you may or may not heard, Nintendo is creating a new video game system that for certain games, you have to use the controller like a sword and swing it around.

 .His first full-length feature film produced by the studio, THX 1138, was not a success, but his second was: American Graffiti (1973).^ THX-113890210, American Graffiti, Episodes 1-4 of Star Wars.
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 He then proposed a new Flash Gordon film adaptation, but the rights were not available. But his new-found wealth and reputation enabled him to develop a story set in space instead. .Even so, he encountered difficulties getting Star Wars made.^ Having Windu or any other Jedi around would greatly damage the Cambellian symbolism that made Star Wars great.

 ^ This was the day when Star Wars not just changed your life, but also changed the way movies were made.

 ^ Star Wars films are made to be seen on the big screen.

 It was only because Alan Ladd, Jr. at Fox Studios liked American Graffiti that he forced through a production and distribution deal for the film, which ended up restoring Fox to financial stability after a number of flops.[5]
.On a return on investment basis, Star Wars proved to be one of the most successful films of all time.^ Secretduke writes: One is in Star Wars.
  • Lucas, George Easter Egg - George Lucus: Early Movie Reference 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.eeggs.com [Source type: General]

 ^ The first Star Wars film?
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 ^ That next project proved to be 1977's Star Wars , one of the most important and successful films in Hollywood history.

 .During the filming of Star Wars, Lucas waived his up-front fee as director and negotiated to own the licensing rights—rights which the studio thought were nearly worthless.^ The first Star Wars film?
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 ^ George Lucas: I appreciate your enthusiasm for Star Wars, but the current versions of the Star Wars films represent my permanent vision of what happens to Anakin and Luke Skywalker.

 ^ Lucas, would you please consider having a new Star Wars product available, like golf club covers?

 .This decision earned him hundreds of millions of dollars, as he was able to directly profit from all the licensed games, toys, and collectibles created for the franchise.^ The merchandise deal has earned Lucas hundreds of millions of dollars more.
  • George Lucas' secret Star Wars playground | The Daily Telegraph 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.dailytelegraph.com.au [Source type: General]

 ^ This decision earned him hundreds of millions of dollars, as he was able to directly profit from all the licensed games, toys, and collectibles created for the franchise.

 ^ To get the film made, Lucas gave up his director's fee, but negotiated a deal for a slice of the box office profits and ownership of the Star Wars licensing rights to the toys, figurines, games and other merchandise related to the film.
  • George Lucas' secret Star Wars playground | The Daily Telegraph 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.dailytelegraph.com.au [Source type: General]
.Lucas developed the American Zoetrope banner to direct Apocalypse Now after completing Star Wars, but work on the former film dragged on, so Coppola took over directing Apocalypse Now, leading to the breakdown of the American Zoetrope partnership.^ The first Star Wars film?
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 ^ Man, now George Lucas took a shit at directing.
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 ^ Were not working on the next Star Wars film trilogy at this time.

 .However, the money from Star Wars enabled Lucas to set up his own studio, Lucasfilm, in Marin County in his native Northern California.^ George Lucas: I appreciate your enthusiasm for Star Wars, but the current versions of the Star Wars films represent my permanent vision of what happens to Anakin and Luke Skywalker.

 ^ Lucas, would you please consider having a new Star Wars product available, like golf club covers?

 ^ For legal reasons, I cant directly accept unsolicited Star Wars ideas at Lucasfilm.

 Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light & Magic, the sound and visual effects subdivisions of Lucasfilm, respectively, have become among the most respected firms in their fields. Lucasfilm Games, later renamed to LucasArts, is well respected in the gaming industry.
.Over the two decades after the first Star Wars film Lucas worked extensively as a writer and/or producer, including the many Star Wars spinoffs made for film, TV and other media.^ The first Star Wars film?
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 ^ Star Wars films are made to be seen on the big screen.

 ^ Were not working on the next Star Wars film trilogy at this time.

 .He acted as Executive Producer for the next two Star Wars films, assigning the direction of The Empire Strikes Back (1980) to Irvin Kershner and Return of the Jedi (1983) to Richard Marquand, while receiving a story credit on the former and sharing a screenwriting credit with Lawrence Kasdan on the latter.^ What I liked about Star Wars, Empire, and Return was that they were fun.
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 ^ The first Star Wars film?
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 ^ It's not that we're not huge Star Wars fans---the first film we can recall seeing in the theater is Return of the Jedi and we still have Empire Strikes Back bed...
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 .Lucas also acted as executive producer and story writer on all four of the Indiana Jones films.^ George Lucas: Indiana Jones is basically Stevens film.

 ^ George Lucas: I never expected to be the inspiration for new story writers, but everything associated with Star Wars has been unexpected.

 ^ Even though Indiana Jones 4 will be created on traditional film, it will be edited with the most advanced-digital-editing equipment.

 .Other notable projects as a producer or executive producer in this period include Kurosawa's Kagemusha (1980), Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat (1981), Jim Henson's Labyrinth (1986), Godfrey Reggio's Powaqqatsi (1986) and the animated film The Land Before Time (1988).^ Every time I start with a project (short films) I study carefully your entire work on STAR WARS. From the screenplay till the photography till the finished film.

 .There were also some less successful projects, however, including More American Graffiti (1979), the ill-fated Howard the Duck (1986) which was arguably the biggest flop of his career, Willow (1988, which Lucas also wrote) and Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988).^ From the "But Wait There's More" Files: I just had the good fortune to skim a friend's advance copy of a new book about Lucas ("Droidmaker" for sale next month) and i finally have some peace with my inner dark side for the man.
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 ^ "You wrote, I don't know, more than five pages on Lucas and yet he does not care and neither do I. Wasting time on a Star Wars nerd fest is just NOT COOL. Think about that and you insulting others is not cool."
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 ^ You wrote, I don't know, more than five pages on Lucas and yet he does not care and neither do I. Wasting time on a Star Wars nerd fest is just NOT COOL. Think about that and you insulting others is not cool.
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.The animation studio Pixar was founded as the Graphics Group, one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm.^ We are setting up a computer-animation division of Lucasfilm in Singapore so that we can produce computer-animated Star Wars TV shows.

 ^ And he went like ballistic when I told him that one day you were going to remake the original trilogy with sophisticated-photorealistic computer animation.

 Pixar's early computer graphics research resulted in groundbreaking effects in films such as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan[6] and Young Sherlock Holmes,[6] and the group was purchased in 1986 by Steve Jobs shortly after he left Apple after a power struggle at Apple Computer. .Jobs paid U.S. $5 million to Lucas and put U.S. $5 million as capital into the company.^ He paid US$5 million to George Lucas and put US$5...

 ^ Jobs paid US $5 million to George Lucas and put US $5 million as capital into the company.

 ^ Finding Nemo , was once owned by Lucas, who sold it 17 years ago to Steve Jobs for $10 million.

 .The sale reflected Lucas' desire to stop the cash flow losses associated with his 7-year research projects associated with new entertainment technology tools, as well as his company's new focus on creating entertainment products rather than tools.^ George Lucas: I never expected to be the inspiration for new story writers, but everything associated with Star Wars has been unexpected.

 .A contributing factor was cash flow difficulties following Lucas' 1983 divorce concurrent with the sudden dropoff in revenues from Star Wars licenses following the release of Return of the Jedi.^ George Lucas: I appreciate your enthusiasm for Star Wars, but the current versions of the Star Wars films represent my permanent vision of what happens to Anakin and Luke Skywalker.

 ^ Lucas, would you please consider having a new Star Wars product available, like golf club covers?

 ^ The death-star battle briefing should be made to look more sophisticated like Return of the Jedi.
The sound equipped system, THX Ltd, was also founded in favor of Lucas, along with founder Tomlinson Holman. The company was formerly owned by Lucasfilm, and contains equipment of stereo, digital, and theatrical sound for movies, and music.
Lucas is working on his first musical, an untitled CGI project being produced at Skywalker Ranch. Kevin Munroe is directing and David Berenbaum wrote the screenplay. [7]

Awards

.In 1991, The George Lucas Educational Foundation was founded as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools.^ Edutopia, a project of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, has announced that it's now...
  • George Lucas: Movies: UGO 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC movieblog.ugo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ In 1991, The George Lucas Educational Foundation was founded as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools.

 ^ On September 19, 2006, USC announced that George Lucas had donated $175 million to his alma mater to expand the film school.

 The Foundation's content is available under the brand Edutopia, in an award-winning magazine, and via documentary films. Lucas, through his foundation, was one of the leading proponents of the E-rate program in the universal service fund,[8] which was enacted as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. On June 24, 2008, Lucas testified before the United States House of Representatives subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet as the head of his Foundation to advocate for a free wireless broadband educational network.[9]
The American Film Institute awarded Lucas its Life Achievement Award on June 9, 2005.[10] This was shortly after the release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, about which he joked stating that, since he views the entire Star Wars series as one movie, he could actually receive the award now that he had finally "gone back and finished the movie."
On June 5, 2005, Lucas was named among the 100 "Greatest Americans" by the Discovery Channel.[11]
.Lucas was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for American Graffiti, and Best Directing and Writing for Star Wars.^ George Lucas: I appreciate your enthusiasm for Star Wars, but the current versions of the Star Wars films represent my permanent vision of what happens to Anakin and Luke Skywalker.

 ^ Lucas, would you please consider having a new Star Wars product available, like golf club covers?

 ^ George Lucas: I never expected to be the inspiration for new story writers, but everything associated with Star Wars has been unexpected.

 He received the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1991. He appeared at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in 2007 with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present the Best Director award to their friend Martin Scorsese. .During the speech, Spielberg and Coppola talked about the joy of winning an Oscar, making fun of Lucas, who has not won a competitive Oscar.^ Guess who will win an Oscar ?
  • George Lucas vs. Steven Spielberg @ WWWF Ground Zero 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.grudge-match.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Clearly, Lucas is poking fun at Spielberg.
  • George Lucas vs. Steven Spielberg @ WWWF Ground Zero 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.grudge-match.com [Source type: General]

 ^ George Lucas has signed off on Star Wars: A Musical Journey, a two-hour live musical event featuring John Williams' Oscar-winning score.
In 2005, Lucas gave US$1 million to help build the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. to commemorate American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.[12]
Lucas at the Time 100 2006 gala
.On September 19, 2006, USC announced that George Lucas had donated $175–180 million to his alma mater to expand the film school.^ George Lucas: I appreciate your enthusiasm for Star Wars, but the current versions of the Star Wars films represent my permanent vision of what happens to Anakin and Luke Skywalker.

 ^ Only even to know; when George Lucas in person tells me not to give up and to proceed on that what I believe, trying to make the best possible film I can do, may it be so.

 ^ George Lucas: The official sound tracks to the Star Wars films are still in print.

 It is the largest single donation to USC and the largest gift to a film school anywhere.[13] .Previous donations led to the already existing George Lucas Instructional Building and Marcia Lucas Post-Production building.^ In a strange piece of strange to kick the morning off right, George Lucas is doing something a little bizarre: he's preparing to build his own Citizen Kane Xanadu.
  • George Lucas Planning to Build a Very Heart Mansion-Like Compound - mediabistro.com: UnBeige 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.mediabistro.com [Source type: General]

 ^ FUTURE generations will never need to establish a George Lucas museum, because George Lucas has already built one for himself.

 ^ From 1980 to 1985 George Lucas was busy building the Skywalker Ranch.
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told: An Interview With George Lucas | Film | Interview | Features | Static Multimedia 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.staticmultimedia.com [Source type: General]

 [14][15]
On January 1, 2007 George Lucas served as the Grand Marshal for the 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade, and made the coin toss at the 2007 Rose Bowl. The toss favored Lucas's alma mater, the Trojans. His team, which came into the game as underdogs, went on to defeat the Michigan Wolverines (32-18).
.On August 25, 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced that Lucas would be one of 13 California Hall of Fame inductees in The California Museum's yearlong exhibit.^ The problem is, i can't even call Lucas a sellout, because that would assume he isn't one to begin with.
  • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Dear Mr. Lucas, I think it would be very interesting to see a Dark Jedi with 2 double-bladed light sabers wielding one in each hand.

 The induction ceremony was on December 1, 2009 in Sacramento, California.
On September 6, 2009, Lucas was in Venice to present to the Pixar team the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the 2009 Biennale Venice Film Festival.

Personal life

.In 1969, Lucas married film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who went on to win an Academy Award for her editing work on the original (Episode IV) Star Wars film.^ Were not working on the next Star Wars film trilogy at this time.

 ^ George Lucas: I appreciate your enthusiasm for Star Wars, but the current versions of the Star Wars films represent my permanent vision of what happens to Anakin and Luke Skywalker.

 ^ Lucas, would you please consider having a new Star Wars product available, like golf club covers?

 .George and Marcia adopted a daughter, Amanda, in 1981, and divorced in 1983. Lucas has since adopted two more children: Katie, born in 1988, and Jett, born in 1993. All three of his children have appeared in the three Star Wars prequels, as has Lucas himself.^ I'm not taking the side of Lucas or the prequels, necessarily, but I am saying that he could create a veritable masterpiece illustrating mastery of every filmic art we have an award for, and old-school Star Wars fans still wouldn't be happy.
  • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ He thinks that bitching to others about Lucas will have more impact than sending it to Lucas himself.
  • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ "You wrote, I don't know, more than five pages on Lucas and yet he does not care and neither do I. Wasting time on a Star Wars nerd fest is just NOT COOL. Think about that and you insulting others is not cool."
  • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 Lucas had been in a long relationship with and engaged to singer Linda Ronstadt. He has been dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, since 2006 and she has accompanied him to several events including the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in February 2007, an American Film Institute event in October 2007, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival held in May, and the 2010 Golden Globes.[16][17][18]
Lucas was born and raised in a strongly Methodist family. .The religious and mythical themes in Star Wars were inspired by Lucas' interest in the writings of anthropologist Joseph Campbell,[19] and he would eventually come to identify strongly with the Eastern religious philosophies he studied and incorporated into his movies, which were a major inspiration for "the Force". Lucas eventually came to state that his religion was "Buddhist Methodist". Lucas resides in Marin County.^ I was ten when Star Wars came out.
  • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ I dont have an interest in making Star Wars theme parks.

 ^ I love to write especially Star Wars.

 [20] Lucas has said that he is a fan of Seth MacFarlane's hit TV show Family Guy. MacFarlane said they were extremely helpful when the Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.[21]

Filmography

Main article: George Lucas filmography

References

  1. ^ "George Lucas ranks 205 on The World's Billionaires 2009". Forbes. May 1, 2007. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/10/billionaires-2009-richest-people_George-Lucas_PNOV.html. Retrieved May 1, 2007. 
  2. ^ George Lucas Biography (1944-)
  3. ^ Silberman, Steve. "Life After Darth" Wired, November 2005.
  4. ^ Silberman, Steve. "Life After Darth" Wired, November 2005.
  5. ^ Tom Shone: Blockbuster How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer (2004). London, Simon & Shuster UK. ISBN 0-7432-6838-5. Chapter 2.
  6. ^ a b Hormby, Thomas (January 22, 2007), The Pixar Story: Dick Shoup, Alex Schure, George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Disney, Low End Mac, http://lowendmac.com/orchard/06/0123.html, retrieved March 1, 2007 
  7. ^ "'George Lucas producing a CGI musical! Featuring ... fairies?". Heat Vision Blog. Jan. 27, 2010. http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/01/george-lucas-cgi-musical-kevin-munroe.html. 
  8. ^ 2008 Rep. Ed Markey's opening statement on universal service
  9. ^ Ars Technica report
  10. ^ 2005 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to George Lucas on USA Network
  11. ^ [1]
  12. ^ Quick Facts About the Memorial - Build the Dream
  13. ^ Stuart Silverstein, George Lucas Donates USC's Largest Single Gift, The Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2006.
  14. ^ George Lucas Instructional Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts.
  15. ^ Marcia Lucas Post-Production, USC School of Cinematic Arts.
  16. ^ Kapos, Shia (December 3, 2007). "Taking Names: Stars in Chicago, but finding love elsewhere". Chicago Business. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?article_id=28942. Retrieved May 19, 2008. 
  17. ^ Germain, David (May 19, 2008). "'Indiana Jones' debut survives Cannes". The Courier News via AP. http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/entertainment/957766,EL19_CANNES_WEB_051908.article. Retrieved May 19, 2008. 
  18. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/01/18/movies/awardsseason/0118-REDCARPET_14.html
  19. ^ PBS - American Masters: George Lucas - About George Lucas
  20. ^ The Religious Affiliation of Director George Lucas
  21. ^ Burton, Bonnie (September 21, 2007). ""Family Guy" Creator Reveals Star Wars Cred". Starwars.com. http://www.starwars.com/community/news/rocks/f20070921/index.html. Retrieved September 21, 2007. 

Sources

  • Rinzler, J.W. "The Making of Star Wars, The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film", Ebury Press, 2007.
  • Silberman, Steve "Life After Darth" Wired, November, 2005
  • "George Lucas: Interviews" University Press of Mississippi (February 16, 2007)
  • The Cinema of George Lucas (Hardcover) by Marcus Hearn, Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (March 1, 2005)
  • Michael Rubin, "Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution" (2005) [ISBN 0937404675]

External links

George Lucas filmography
Films directed
THX 1138 (1971) · American Graffiti (1973) · Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) · Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) · Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) · Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Shorts
Herbie (1966) · The Emperor (1967) · Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
Produced
1970s
1980s
Kagemusha (1980) · Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) · Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)  · Body Heat (1981; uncredited) · Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) · Twice Upon a Time (1983) · Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) · Latino (1985; uncredited) · Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) · Howard the Duck (1986) · Labyrinth (1986) · Captain EO (1986) · Star Tours (1987) · The Land Before Time (1988) · Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) · Powaqqatsi (1988) · Willow (1988) · Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
1990s
2000s
Star Wars: Clone Wars (TV series) (2003) · Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) · Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) · Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series) (2008)
2010s
Red Tails (2010) · Star Tours II (TBA) · Star Wars (TV series) (TBA)
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.George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born 14 May 1944) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter mostly famous for Star Wars and the Indiana Jones trilogy.^ He created the Star Wars universe and Indiana Jones.
  • George Lucas: Give it up - scanners 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC blogs.suntimes.com [Source type: General]

 ^ George Lucas: The official sound tracks to the Star Wars films are still in print.

 ^ The first Star Wars film?
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On a test audience screening of THX-1138:
  • "It was insane, I wish I had filmed it. .It was like bringing an audience to the Mona Lisa and asking, 'Do you know why she is smiling?'^ YTV. WHy YTV you ask?
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ You know, like "Revenge of the Sith."
    • George Lucas: Give it up - scanners 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC blogs.suntimes.com [Source type: General]

     ^ Do you know why I'm going to intervine?
    • George Lucas vs. Steven Spielberg @ WWWF Ground Zero 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.grudge-match.com [Source type: General]

     .'Sorry Leonardo, you'll have to make some changes.'^ Anyway, you make some good points.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ John SAYS Lucas isn't getting his money (I'll make it easy for you, use the "search" function on your damned browser).
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ I dont mind the changes and Im sure youre telling the truth about making two more trilogies and you being a Christian.

     At least the audience understood that THX was not a love story set in the 25th century, which was the way Warners had planned to advertise it. Instead the company settled for 'Visit the future , where love is the ultimate crime.'"
On a United States Information Agency Film about President Johnson's trip to Asia, which he worked on as an editor:
  • "The Johnson film wasn't terrible. I just didn't agree with the politics. I'm not a fan of big government and propaganda films are distasteful."
    • The San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, 1971
On how American Zoetrope functions:
.
  • "We say, 'We think you are a talented, functioning person, and we are hiring you because of your abilities, and whatever you come up with, we're going to take.'^ YOu're all the same person.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ But I also think you're missing the point.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ And he says that you are not a Christian at all, but just a person who doesnt really know what hes doing.

     If we make a mistake, it will be in picking the wrong person. .What we're striving for is total freedom, where we can finance our pictures, make them our way, release them where we want them released and be completely free to express ourselves.^ The prequels are the way I want them so I dont expect to ever make special editions of them.

     ^ They havent sold enough Blu-Ray DVD units to make it worth our while to release the Star Wars films in the Blu-Ray format.

     That's very hard to do in the world of business. .In this country, the only thing that speaks is money and you have to have the money in order to have the power to be free.^ You can do neat things with it, like generating maps of countries where people are.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ It's like the thing with Han...redemption only counts if you had actually fallen from grace, and to fall from grace, well, you have to be IN grace to begin with.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Does it maybe occur to you that by NOT rewarding him for crap with your money, that maybe, just maybe, THAT sends a message FAR more powerful than a petition?
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     .So the danger is -- in being as oppressive as the next guy to the people below you.^ Imagine being feted and lauded and given mountains of money, have people worldwide look to you with awe, so undeservedly.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ THE GUY IS DREAMING ABOUT YOUR DEATH WHILE YOU SLEEP SOUNDLY NEXT TO HIM EVERY SINGLE NIGHT! .
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     We're going to do every possible to avoid that pitfall. But if we fail, it's another saga in the history of man..." .
    • The San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, 1971
  • "My primary concept in approaching the production of THX 1138 was to make a kind of cinema verité film of the future -- something that would look like a documentary crew had made a film about some character in a time yet to come"
    • American Cinematographer, October 1971
  • "No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck."^ It would also mean that you have some control over my actions, and so I choose to not do so.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ You have amused me to no end.

     ^ That sounds like something that Harrison Ford would come up with.

     .
    • American Cinematographer, October 1971
  • "As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close.^ I am surprised you didn't even go into the abuses of physics that occur in the second of the prequels.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Now, i'm going to guess that you're on the young side, and therefore not thinking clearly.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ I think youll get nothing ever done...go and get more angrier and let you rage grow!
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     .So it's just one of those recurring things… I hope this doesn't come true in our country.^ Its not a good thing to give the impression to kids that characters never really die and everyone comes back in one form or another.

     ^ If Episode I had come out in '77, everyone would have been just as astounded, obviously even more so, than they were for A New Hope, despite the wooden acting.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     Maybe the film will waken people to the situation." .
  • "When I wrote it [Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith], Iraq didn't exist… We were just funding Saddam Hussein and giving him weapons of mass destruction.^ Revenge of the Sith was the sixth film in the Star Wars franchise.

     ^ Star Wars exists only because I would not give up.

     ^ "It's just not Star Wars anymore.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     We didn't think of him as an enemy at that time. .We were going after Iran and using him as our surrogate, just as we were doing in Vietnam… The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable…"
    • CBS4Boston.com, "Star Wars Raises Questions On U.S. Policy"
  • "[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew?^ "It's just not Star Wars anymore.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ I just want to thank you for creating the Star Wars movies.

     ^ Just remember in the end that I control Star Wars.

     .Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon?^ Okay, now that I've bored you to tears with why I hate these two guys, I'd have to (and did) give Lucas the win.
    • George Lucas vs. Steven Spielberg @ WWWF Ground Zero 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.grudge-match.com [Source type: General]

     It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler." .
    • CBS4Boston.com, "Star Wars Raises Questions On U.S. Policy"
  • "You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the same kinds of issues, and threats from the outside, needing more control.^ You should reach into more limits with Star Wars.

     ^ I hope you can answer these questions.

     ^ I really hope to see you at the next Star Wars event.

     .A democratic body, a senate, not being able to function properly because everybody's squabbling, there's corruption."^ I wish there was something I could do for you, but I cant really make a difference because it would be a full-time job helping everybody that contacts me.

     .
    • CBS4Boston.com, "Star Wars Raises Questions On U.S. Policy"
  • "Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood."^ You should reach into more limits with Star Wars.

     ^ I just dont have enough space to include all the facets of Star Wars in the films that is why SuperShadow.com exists.

     ^ However, I have a few questions about Star Wars.
    • starwars.com, "Lucas in a D.C. daze (Legendary helmer meets with Prez)"[1]
  • "Remember in the end, John, you're not looking at the background, you're not watching the Pods, you're listening to the music."
    • George Lucas to John Knoll[citation needed]
  • "If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it."
    • at a Star Wars fan convention[citation needed]
On Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull:
  • “The fans are all upset. They’re always going to be upset. Why did he do it like this? And why didn’t he do it like this? .They write their own movie, and then, if you don’t do their movie, they get upset about it."^ And just when they're about to strike...a reporter asks Lucas for yet another interview about his stupid movie.
    • George Lucas vs. Steven Spielberg @ WWWF Ground Zero 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.grudge-match.com [Source type: General]
    • VanityFair.com "Keys to the Kingdom"
On cliches
.
  • "Don't avoid the cliches- they are cliches because they work!"^ What you realize is that as you work with folks who have been doing this for say, over half a century is that they don't waste movement.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Let's not forget his moronic In the future, chicks don't wear bras because they're all liberated 'n' stuff .
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
    • George Lucas to Marty Sklar, quoted in "The Imagineering Way: Ideas to Ignite your Creativity" (Disney Editions, 2003)

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  • A movie is never finished, only abandoned.
  • Dreams are extremely important.^ The only problem was that we could watch only about nearly 5 - 10 minutes of the most important scenes of the entire movie.

     .You can't do it unless you imagine it.
  • Good luck has its storms.
  • I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
  • It's not like the old 'Star Wars'. This one's a little bit more emotional.^ You should reach into more limits with Star Wars.

     ^ If you like the first three, good for you.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Also, remember, he only directed one of those three, namely, Star Wars, and it is the weakest of the three.
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     .We like to describe Episode III as Titanic in space.^ If you don't like people criticising episodes I-III, why read a post that BY ITS TITLE is going to be a lambasting of the fetid sucking sound that is George Lucas?
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ He didn't like Episode III. (tags: starwars) Les Jones: Dave...
    • The Bynk Zone: I hates Lucas! I hates it forever! 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.bynkii.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     .It's a tearjerker.
  • Sound is 50 percent of the moviegoing experience.
  • The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
  • A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal, something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 in the morning, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and something that you have a natural ability to do very well.
  • Special effects are just a tool: a means of telling a story.^ I like you and you do make me very happy with your work.

     ^ You have thought this out very well.

     ^ You are a great story maker and I do respect you in the very highest.

     People have a tendency to confuse them as an ends unto themselves. .A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.^ They want special effects instead of story.
    • George Lucas vs. Steven Spielberg @ WWWF Ground Zero 11 January 2010 12:58 UTC www.grudge-match.com [Source type: General]

     ([2] @9:39)

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George Lucas at the Time 100 2006 gala, covered by video blog Rocketboom.

George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944 in Modesto, California) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter most famous for his Star Wars and Indiana Jones movie series.

He also directed the films THX 1138 (1970) and American Graffiti (1973), and with his good friend Steven Spielberg, he made the Indiana Jones series. He is also an innovator for what he has done with special effects, and has founded companies that make not only movies, but also things like video games, theme park rides, and TV shows.

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